The game is in an early stage of development but already contains features such as buying and selling servers, taking contracts, hiring employees, buying bigger buildings and modding.
See the sections below for more information:
The beta build is moddable in the following ways:
Modding is possible through adding images and changing xml files in DataCenterTycoonBeta3_Data\GameContent
or on Mac:
DataCenterTycoon Beta 3 Mac.app\Contents\GameContent
Currently the game is in early beta more is planned in the future releases; here are just some of the planned changes/new features:
This update brings many new features into Data Center Tycoon, one of these features is employees. Employees make sure all the servers are quickly fixed if they break. During development the system for loading game content showed it wasn't up to the task, so instead of the old system a new one has taken it's place and along with this system comes multi platform support at the moment that means builds of the game are available on OS X and Windows. Probably the largest feature implemented was the ability to buy bigger buildings to house your data center, so here are some screenshots of the new buildings:
The starting building is a basement with two racks -
clearly not enough space for a growing data center company!
The next step up from the basement is a garage, this has 9 racks of space for servers
and also has enough room for more than one employee.
You buy new buildings through a menu tab called 'estate agent' which lists all the buildings you can move into and if you have enough money you simply click the building you want and your data center will move.
These features aren't the only ones added here is this updates complete new feature list:
This update includes the new 3D voxel art style that was introduced in Alpha 2, the update also includes selling servers and some other bug fixes.
The alpha build is the first public release of Data Center Tycoon contains the basic gameplay for the game including servers and contracts.
This update adds more maps, employees and improves how the games content is loaded which allowed OS X support Update: Fixed a contracts bug
This update adds more maps, employees and improves how the games content is loaded which may allow greater platform support. Update: Fixed contracts bug
This update changes all the art to 3D voxel models. Edit: Changed version to 2.3 which includes various features and solves some bugs (including bad balancing...
This is the first public build of Data Center Tycoon with basic gameplay and features.
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Is this game still being worked on? :)
Unfortunately no. Last updates are from 2016 and it is unplayable in
this condition :(
He posted about it last year saying that he is still working on it and that heat and cooling are very close to being finished so I take that as a bit of an update. Just no updates since then